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Six times Lily Allen could have ‘stuck to singing’

When the actor Laurence Fox appeared on Question Time last week, and laid into the growth of identity politics in the UK, it’s fair to say he didn’t make many friends online. The actor has since been bombarded with abuse for refusing to apologise for his comments and was even denounced by the actors’ union Equity, who labelled him a ‘disgrace’ – before the union retracted its comments.

Now it appears the pop-star and mindless provocateur Lily Allen has added her thoughts to the mix. Apparently without any sense of irony, the singer hit out at Fox over the weekend, and claimed that she was ‘sick to death of luvvies… forcing their opinions on everybody else’, especially when they ‘never have to deal with what normal people have to deal with’.

Mr S for once thinks she might be on to something. Although perhaps Allen, who spent the best part of the decade living in a £4.2m

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